A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...

“The existence of winter doesn't disprove climate change,” says Stuart Evans, assistant professor of geography at the ...

The planet has been shattering heat records for the past two years. That was expected to ease in January—and the fact that it ...

Although the climate goals set by the Paris Agreement are based on the long-term average temperature, one year of high ...

La Niña is a part of the El Niño southern oscillation, a climate fluctuation that slowly sloshes vast bodies of water and ...

poles, interior of southern continents) the data have been shown to adequately represent global and hemispheric area-averaged temperature variability and change (eg. see Morice et al, 2012) The actual ...

Researchers caution that even slight increments in global temperature ... is the first time in recorded data that a La Niña phase has yielded temperatures higher than those during the preceding El ...

Global and hemispheric rainfall timeseries are available from 1900 to present for annual, seasonal and monthly rainfall. Seasonal means are December-February (DJF), March-May (MAM), June-August (JJA) ...

It marked the 18th time in the past 19 months that the global surface air temperature surpassed the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement. The past 12 months (February 2024 – January 2025 ...

Yet global temperatures have kept rising. Last year was the first calendar year to breach 1.5 degrees. As Paris goals refer to averages over around two decades, rather than single months or years ...

and its website is very quick at drawing together observations from all over the planet to estimate each month’s average global temperature. The ‘anomaly’ is how much higher that temperature ...